Guatemalekse President Bernardo Arevalo confirmed that his country is willing to accept migrants from other nationalities deported from the US under the government of President Donald Trump.
Arevalo did on Wednesday during a visit by State Secretary Marco Rubio. The new agreement explains Guatemala a “safe third country” for deportation, whereby the US pay for migrants to eventually return to their home country.
“We have agreed to increase the number of deportees by 40%, both of our nationality and other nationalities,” said Arevalo, speaking during a press conference with Rubio.
The agreement is comparable to only less expansive than the only rubio that has been reached with The President of the Slavador, Nayib Bukele, On Tuesday. Bukele said that his country would accept the American deportees of nationality, including American citizens and legal inhabitants who are trapped for violent crimes.
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Guatemalekse President Bernardo Arevalo has cleared the path for the status of his nation as a ‘safe third country’. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
“We have offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of his prison system,” Bukele wrote on X on Monday evening. “We are willing to include only convicted criminals (including convicted American citizens) in our mega prison in exchange for compensation. The compensation would be relatively low for the US, but important to us, making our entire prison system is sustainable “
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Rubio said that the Salvadoran president “has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migration agreement all over the world.”
“We can send them, and he will put them in his prisons,” Rubio told reporters, Referring to illegal immigrants behind bars in American prisons. “And he is also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serve their penalties in the United States, even though they are American citizens or legal inhabitants.”
The American State Secretary Marco Rubio meets El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in his home on Lake Coatepeque in El Salvador on Monday 3 February 2025. (AP)
Although Bukele has extended the offer to record violent American criminals, it is very unlikely that part of the offer would actually happen because it is illegal to deport American citizens. An American officer said that the Trump government is not going to deport American citizens, but noted that the supply of Bukele was considerable.
The proposal with El Salvador, known as a “safe third country” agreement, could possibly be an option for Venezuelan gang members convicted of the US as Venezuela refuses to accept them, and Rubio said Bukele offered to prisoners of a nationality to accept.
People are seen on board an American military aircraft. The White House announced on Friday that “deportation flights started” in the US (White House)
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Bukele also said that he would illegally take back all Salvadoran MS-13 gang members in the US and promised to accept and lock up criminal illegal aliens from every country, especially those associated with the Tren the Aragua gang of Venezuela.
The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
